Toronto Pig Save sings Christmas carols in front of Quality Meat Packers
Discover the true meaning of Christmas with Toronto Pig Save this Christmas Day. TPS Choir sings adapted Christmas Carols at Quality Meat Packers' unloading area at 677 Wellington St. West on Sunday, December 25, 2011.
For more information, please visit: www.torontopigsave.org
Video production: Anita Krajnc for rabbletv (Anita is also a member and co-founder of Toronto Pig Save)
Confrontation at slaughterhouse over frostbitten and hypothermic pigs
* Please note there is some swearing in this video.
Toronto Pig Save releases undercover footage of 'kill floor' at Quality Meat Packers
Toronto Pig Save is releasing footage of activists taking temperatures with a digital thermometer inside pig transport trucks stopping at the long lights at Lakeshore and Strachan (near the Exhibition's Prince's Gates) during Thursday’s heat wave.
Pigs hot and dehydrated at Toronto's Quality Meat Packers
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at about 2pm, a local resident -- Teresa -- witnessed pigs that were very hot, dehydrated and wounded, including several pigs with bloody snouts in one transport truck. She was shocked to see about 10 transport trucks waiting in line in the hot sun to be unloaded at Toronto's Quality Meat Packers, including three trucks waiting on Wellington Street West. Distressed by what she witnessed, she ran into the plant and asked to speak to the manager. She demanded that they address the crisis. She was asked to leave.
Teresa texted her friends and various NGOs and through social media Toronto Pig Save was informed at about 4 p.m. We immediately visited the site.
Tricks of the Trade Workshops - Liz Marshall on making a community documentary
Location
A group workshop… To film one video, working together, in 3 hours. The emphasis will be on working together, quickly, to conceptualize and then film an artfully crafted mini documentary, which explores & unearths the concerns of the surrounding community. The goal for the video: a tool for community outreach at the political level, to send it to local politicians and community leaders – to spark a new dialogue about the slaughterhouse; to bring to light the issues from the community. In doing so, the video should also expose the cold hard facts about slaughter: the number of pigs slaughtered each day, the conditions...